celeb news Jewel talks about sexism she received for doing pop music in 2003

[Bloodflowers.]

 

Before her performance of Intuition in London (global tingz), the Alaskan Joni Mitchell talked briefly of what was her life like during 0304 era and how music industry treated her for wearing sexy clothes.

 

[Peroxide]

Did she make a random Amber Heard diss?

 

Well, that aside... yeah the story she tells at the start is genuinely very sad. It's a shame she was the victim of so much **** shaming...

 

That being said, I am REALLY struggling to clock the Cole Porter influences on that album, musically, lyrically... etc

Edited December 28, 2023 by Peroxide

[Katamari]

True folk pop Liz phair made points

[Katamari]

12 minutes ago, Peroxide said:

Did she make a random Amber Heard diss?

 

Well, that aside... yeah the story she tells at the start is genuinely very sad. It's a shame she was the victim of so much **** shaming...

 

That being said, I am REALLY struggling to clock the Cole Porter influences on that album, musically, lyrically... etc

It’s the vibes

[UnusualBoy]

She really had it hard because that basically killed her career.

[Shimenawa]

The original Taylor Swift?

[prézli]

14 minutes ago, UnusualBoy said:

She really had it hard because that basically killed her career.

The blueprint for Colbie Caillat

 

[barbiegrande]

Wasn’t 0304 meant to be an “ironic” album though? Basically her shading the pop industry of the time. 

[Jewel]

7 minutes ago, Shimenawa said:

The original Taylor Swift?

The superior* Taylor Swift. She couldn't do Foolish Games. 

[queenoftheclouds]

It's sad that Folk/Country singers Had to do Pop for an era and flopped hard with that.

All These amazing girls Like her, Colbie, LeAnn ect. didn't deserved that.

[JoeAg]

17 minutes ago, prézli said:

The blueprint for Colbie Caillat

 

this is so off topic but as a french speaker, the way her and her dad pronounce their last name has always made me kind of f*cking cringe  they say “callay” when in reality it looks like it should be something more like “kye-ah” or if they wanna americanize it maybe at least “kye-aht”

 

ok rant over i need more sleep, that was pretentious underslept Joe world 

[mchl]

0304 still eats. 

[FanService]

48 minutes ago, Jewel said:

The superior* Taylor Swift. She couldn't do Foolish Games. 

Jewel could easily do ''Shake It Off' (not that she would, she's not that tasteless) but Taylor Swift could never pull Intuition off

[FanService]

She won though, she gave us Stand and Intuition both of which are classics

[popmusicisdead]

she didn't lie. it's shocking how openly misogynistic publications were back then. just read reviews for "Dirrty". people were basically calling Xtina a hooker. that would not fly today at all 

[queenoftheclouds]

57 minutes ago, JoeAg said:

this is so off topic but as a french speaker, the way her and her dad pronounce their last name has always made me kind of f*cking cringe  they say “callay” when in reality it looks like it should be something more like “kye-ah” or if they wanna americanize it maybe at least “kye-aht”

 

ok rant over i need more sleep, that was pretentious underslept Joe world 

At 1:20 

 

[JoeAg]

3 minutes ago, queenoftheclouds said:

At 1:20 

 

oh hell ya  self aware queen!! lemme give Brighter Than the Sun a few cute streams

[x æ a-xii]

This queen spilled. Such amazing voice and lyrics. She deserves the world for Serve the Ego (original + remixes) alone.

And please stop comparing this talented woman to those people... She's no TS or Colbie... she's just the original Jewel...

 

Go stream Intuition for your daily dose of talentry and class.

 

Edited December 28, 2023 by x æ a-xii

[God_Donna]

Follow your HearTtT

[plasticboy]

does the 2003 album have a ton of pop bops???? 

[Sergi91]

2 hours ago, UnusualBoy said:

She really had it hard because that basically killed her career.

I read that she basically did the pop/dance album because the final single from the previous album had a dance remix that did well on the dance charts which gave her the idea of doing a pop/dance album 

 

 

blame this remix for killing her career 

 

[Truth Teller]

Ok this is a cringey performance. And why did she randomly come for Amber Heard? The lyric doesn't even work, she's not trying to teach us love.

 

0304 is an indefensibly bad album. Intuition was a standout but she literally couldn't perform it (and apparently still can't). Plus she still hasn't decided if she was going for ironic or wholeheartedly trying to make a pop album -and it doesn't work as either of the two anyway. She's right about the 90's being a little too pretentious and even the Lilith Fair movement, with all the good it did for female singers-songwriters, came with a lot of conditions and limitations on how they needed to look, sound and write to be taken seriously, but... Jewel was also just not very good (and apparently still isn't). Seems sweet and all.

[Gorjesspazze9]

Intuition was a Bop. People couldn’t appreciate it’s Lyricism at the time 

[2NE1]

That what happens when you’re boring

[Bloodflowers.]

3 hours ago, plasticboy said:

does the 2003 album have a ton of pop bops???? 

 

If you like early 2000s cheap bubblegum pop songs then you'll eat them all out! Run 2 You, Yes U Can, U & Me = Love  of course singles Intuition and Stand!

 

2 hours ago, Sergi91 said:

I read that she basically did the pop/dance album because the final single from the previous album had a dance remix that did well on the dance charts which gave her the idea of doing a pop/dance album 

 

 

blame this remix for killing her career 

 

 

Her career was already on a decline by that point. If she kept her same sound/image, she would've faded away like Alanis Morissette. Jewel's song "Standing Still" peaked at #25 on Billboard Hot 100 in 2001 while her second single failed to chart. Similarly Alanis released a Top 25 single "Hands Clean" in 2002 while her second single "Precious Illusions" failed to chart. If anything, Jewel going pop put her in the commercial spotlight a little bit longer. She also had a lot of private, family issues going on with her mother as Intuition was smashing.